The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-20

could have made the two miles TO the
fort II he had chosen to do 80, and Of
fered to stay behind and help him, II
he needed help, but he wouldn't listen
to me-"
"Camp out!' Wilson exclaimed.
'With all those women and children,
too! Why, he's insane, and worse, II
he does such a thing! Why didn't you
make them come on, Ikep It's too late
for me to turn back now"
II said all could, Haden answered;
'.but Hood didn't like 1t. He snubbed
me about my dogs, and was SO insult
ing in what he said of father, that got
mad, too, and left him."
John Wilson laughed, and Ike bent
to caress monstrous hound, which,
when his master paused for a minute,
would plant his forepaws on his foot in
the stirrup, and raising himself up,
look gravcly and questioningly in his
owners face.
"Down, Captain!' he said, as the line
Of march was taken up again. "Look
here, Neighbor Wilson, Cap, here, has
as much sense as any Of us, and more
than most. He understands every word
he hears, and when he looks in my face
that way, he means: "What is to be
done nextp"
There's the fort!' exclaimed Will
son. "Suppose you ride ahead with the
dogs. If there are Injuns around per-
haps they'll smell 'em out"
That night there was no sleep for Ike
Haden. He tossed and turned on his
hard pallet in the fort, thinking of the
family left behind. Accounts of other
Indian massacres had come to the fort
that night, and the savages seemed to
strike in several places at once. At the
dawn of day he was up, and with his
dogs started to meet the Hoods. II
somehow feel anxious about those
folks" he said to the other men.
In less than half an hour he galloped
back. No man had ever before seen
Ike Haden really excited. but now,
when he dismounted from his horse, his
face was ghastly, and his parched
tongue could scarcely articulate.
They're all murdered out there! all
but four men who somehow managed
to hide in the bushes and are now COM
ing in. It was dreadful sight-men,
women, and little children all MUIR
dered!" And sick and faint at the
thought of what he had beheld, Ike
Haden sat down, unable longer to stand.
Not word was said by the men in
i NJ NJ >f
but the knowledge that the fate of the
murdered family might be theirs the
very next hour gave no time for mourn.
ing. A strong detachment set out i'm
mediately and brought the dead bodies
in.
1--WE had better bury them here with.
in the walls, said John Wilson. 'When
this scare is over, WE can easily move
them. 1 don't like going outside the
stockadc."
II don't think there's any danger y
Captain Ames replied. 1.-THE scouts
have just come in and say that the In.
dian trail shows that they have gone
south. We had better bury the bodies
in the valley. It's SO near, we can get
to the fort ut the first alarm"
So it was decided. When the burial
procession set forth, the gates of the
fortress were left open so that they
could rush in at minutes notice. Ike
Haden had gone after some cows which
had strayed from the fort, and on whose
milk the children depended for food
and had taken his dogs with him. L
he had been in the procession, the keen
scent of his hounds would have detected
the Prophet Francis and his Indians
who, fiat on their faces, were hidden in
thicket of bushes few hundred yards
from the fort. As the bodies were being
lowered into the grave that had been
made, the solemn silence was broken
by the terrible war-whoop. and fifty
savages made dash ut the open gates
of the fort. Could they gain it, the
people on the open plain would be al
their mercy. The white men saw this,
and running at the top of their speed,
reached the gate and closed it.
'Men! menr" cried John Wilson
''don't you see that we've shut the
l WOu1cA tsIlNl CNllutcu Outsiucs duu Vllt
Injuns between them and the gate!
Do you think I'll stop here and see my
wife butchered before my eycsp Lei
me out"
"YOu can do no good. Wilson, said
Captain Ames. a stalwart backwoods
man. 'They are four to our one. Lool
there! Look at Ike Haden''
Haden and his dogs had come up al
that moment, and a glance told hin
the state of affairs. His feet horse
would have carried him safely away
but it never crossed his mind to desert
those helpless creatures. Raising him
self in his stirrups he cried: EAT 'em
Cap! At 'em, Le0!'' in loud, ringing
tones.
In q second the pack of hounds were
upon the Indians. Each hound seemed
to single out his man and sprang upor
him with the fury of wild beast, ani
before the astonished Indians could re
cover their senses, the women and
children were within the fort; but theil
gallant rescuer was outside, with 1
score of savages unhurt and eager t.
kill or capture him. Without mo
ment's hesitation. Haden put his hunt
ing-horn to his lips and blew q loud
shrill blast, which brought his surviy
ing hounds around him. Several had
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